I can't believe that week 12 is come and gone! These past two weeks like all the others have gone by really fast but were fully loaded with an interesting documentary, reading, assignment, and discussions. During week 11 we watched the documentary Unnatural Causes...is inequality making us sick?which was a very powerful film for me. The film was about people from various parts of Kentucky and the environmental factors that people in different social classes deal with and the effects it has on their health. The film introduced four different people which I thought was a good way for us to relate to the issue. During the last part of week 11 Dr. V walked us through the Healthy People 2010 website and explained how to do the research needed to do our Advocacy Project: Healthy People/THOMAS project that was due on Tuesday of week 12.
In the beginning of week 12 our Healthy People/THOMAS assignment was due. For this assignment we had to find an environmentally related issue that we were interested in and find the goal in Healthy People 2010. We also had to talk about the progress of the goal, the emerging issues, disparities, and opportunities & challenges. After we did that we needed to find a related bill within THOMAS and report on the last major action taken, the political representative for the bill, and state whether we wanted to our representative to vote yes or no on the bill. I chose to do mine on goal 19 nutrition and overweight. This assignment was interesting and it was cool to read all of the other postings that people in class wrote.
Overall the past two weeks were very informational and I enjoyed the documentary and our advocacy project. We will be doing more with our advocacy projects later on which I am looking forward to. Thanks for reading hope you all have a good weekend!
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I really enjoyed the documentary as well, it was definitely a shock for me. Like most documents we've watched in this class, I kept thinking "wow I had no idea this was going on". As far as advocacy project goes, I am starting to get into the topic I picked and I am looking forward to reading others' topics.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a good weekend too.Nice post!
I also really enjoyed the documentary that we watched two weeks ago. It really brought up a issue that I feel as health educators, we really need to be aware of. I think that the advocacy project that we are starting will be really cool, and a really great opportunity for us to start working with the legislative system. I am a little worried for mine, because I am not to knowledgeable about this kind of stuff, but think it will be a great way to push me out of my comfort zone. Great post, and good luck with your advocacy project!!
ReplyDeleteThat was a very interesting documentary. I would say may 3rd favorite of the class. I'm a bit excited but nervous at the same time while working on this advocacy project. At least I have a topic that interests me so maybe it will be a little easier to handle.
ReplyDeleteI felt this past 2 weeks has been so infomational in different ways than weve been exposed to before..ie the Thomas assignment. I also found it cool to be able to look up an issue and see where it stands in terms of the action being taken towards them. So Im looking forward to the next part of our project and see what else we get to look into!
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